Anthropology Department

Anthropology

Anthropology studies the complexity and diversity of human and nonhuman life in an interconnected world. At Wesleyan, we offer courses on anthropological theories and methods, as well as topics including urban anthropology, globalization, media studies, consumer culture, archaeology, social movements and activism, development and humanitarianism, and race, gender and sexuality. Anthropology provides excellent preparation for a variety of careers that require an understanding of cultural difference in a transnational world, in such fields as education, journalism, law, media, medicine, development, and social justice organizing, as well as for graduate and professional studies. Social justice and ethical concerns have always been central to the discipline of anthropology.

Recent Faculty Books

Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, & the World

Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University Press, 2017.

Recent Faculty Books

Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle

Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University Press, 2015.

Recent Faculty Books

Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays

Elizabeth Traube, ANU E Press, 2012.

Recent Faculty Books

Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality

Margot Weiss, Duke University Press, 2011.

Recent Faculty Books

The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Trangression, and Urban Renewal in Lima

Daniella Gandolfo, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Recent Faculty Books

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Duke University Press, 2008.

Recent Faculty Books

Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India